Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Xero as an Engineer and play a crucial role in building reliable, scalable solutions for our analytics platform. You will contribute directly to our products, adopt strong development practices, and integrate analytics tools into our ecosystem. This hands-on role involves creating high-quality software, designing and performing testing activities, resolving issues, contributing to engineering standards, and championing continuous improvement. The position is a 12-month fixed-term, fully remote role. You will need experience as a Senior Software Engineer with proficiency in Node.js (Express) and React. Xero offers generous paid leave, wellbeing support, private medical insurance, and other benefits.

Requirements

• Previous experience as a Senior Software Engineer, with a track record of delivering high-quality software solutions at scale
• Must be proficient in Node.js (Express) and React, with a demonstrated ability to build scalable and reliable solutions using these technologies
• Extensive hands-on experience working with modern JavaScript frameworks and backend systems, including full lifecycle ownership of production-level codebases
• Demonstrated success mentoring junior engineers and establishing technical best practices within teams

Responsibilities

• Create software - Care deeply about customer problems and technical excellence, develop high quality and scalable software, and coach others to do the same. Relentlessly automate any manual processes. Contribute to technical solution designs that embrace a quality-first approach. Participate in code reviews as a role model for giving and receiving feedback
• Test software - Design and perform sophisticated testing activities that effectively and efficiently reveal product quality across a range of risk areas and quality criteria. Coach team members to enable high quality testing in line with Xero’s quality strategy and standards
• Resolve issues - Efficiently assess the causes and identify solutions for development or production issues, and effectively communicate the impact to stakeholders. Recognise common patterns of failure to mitigate issues before they reach production. Proactively participate in incident responses and contribute to post-mortems
• Engineering standards & frameworks - Contribute to Xero's engineering standards and frameworks. Work closely with the Lead and Principal Engineers to apply standards to software and delivery processes
• Continuous improvement - Proactively maintain, grow and share knowledge of development technologies used in the development of Xero’s software applications
• Deliver infrastructure in a production environment - Champion automation of delivery processes. Coach and support engineers to ensure all software is running as expected and proactively works to prevent customer facing problems
• Modern software and delivery practices - Be a proactive champion of agile and delivery practices who coaches and develops others in this space in order to ensure a consistent approach to ways of working
• Recruitment - Participate in interviews and recruitment processes

Benefits

• Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!)
• Dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family
• Private medical insurance
• Gym passes
• Employee resource groups
• 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• An Employee Share Plan
• Beautiful offices
• Flexible working